first-born

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Gilham said Stanley's father, who was an MP, and his mother - who helped establish the first women's college at Cambridge University - had "great expectations for their first-born".

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

In an interview four years earlier, he discussed how his mother-in-law took a year off to help take care of his first-born.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2025

“I lost my son, my only son, my first-born son.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2024

They did not find the same result in boys or daughters who were not first-born.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024

And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in the manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith